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Maddy’s work is great and worth reading (even as an antirealist!), but it’s worth keeping in mind that debates about foundations are basically irrelevant to the
by intuitionist 5y ago
Maddy’s work is great and worth reading (even as an antirealist!), but it’s worth keeping in mind that debates about foundations are basically irrelevant to the working lives of the large majority of mathematicians. If you’re studying, say, extremal graph theory or the Langlands program or low-dimensional topology, the cardinality of the continuum is simply not relevant.
- pavpanchekha 5y agoYes, I actually have a kind-of related blog post: https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/proof-system-os.html https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/proof-system-os.html I tried to restrict my post to just set theory because this philosophical point is often hard for people to grasp.